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Professionalization in adult education and the memory culture The discussion of the adult education and its history opens for a closer look at the process of its professionalization. The position of the temporal delimitation and the focusing on the contents come into focus. It turns out that the history of woman education is not represented explicitly in textbooks on the history of the adult education. Focussing on historical factual knowledge and experience knowledge, the analysis of memor…
The international arena of lifelong learning offers rich country-specific portfolios of historical trajectories, policy frameworks and practical evidence of adult and continuing education. This book provides an introduction to the case of Belarus and outlines the key features of its system alongside issues such as political and legal agendas, schemes of participation, provision and financing or trends in professionalization, research areas and transnational linkages. Through the lens of adult a…
Gegründet wurde die landesweite, und insbesondere von den Gewerkschaften geförderte Organisation 1903 von Albert Mansbridge und seiner Ehefrau Frances Jane Pringle unter dem Namen „Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men". 1905 folgte mit der Zulassung von Frauen die Umbenennung. In den Anfangsjahren wurde eine enge Partnerschaft mit den Universitäten aufgebaut. Heute ist sie die größte, aus Spenden finanzierte Erwachsenenbildungseinrichtung Englands.